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Executive Branch AI and the Rule of Law: An Emerging Research Agenda
16+ hour, 7+ min ago (447+ words) Sooner or later, in this administration or a future one, AI will come for the federal workforce. It is by now clich" to warn that artificial intelligence (AI) seems poised to disrupt most major institutions and economic sectors in the…...
U. S. Vows to Fight Distillation Attacks
20+ hour, 22+ min ago (1524+ words) The U. S. government has committed to countering Chinese "distillation attacks," which are being used to steal the proprietary capabilities of American frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models. We love a little governmental fist-shaking, but we don't think its plan will have China's…...
Ukraine's AI Gambit Shows Middle Powers How to Play a Weak Hand
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (1665+ words) Lawfare On March 12, Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's minister of defense, announced that the Ukrainian military would make available millions of drone videos and other battlefield data to Ukrainian companies and allied nations to help train artificial intelligence (AI) models. "We must…...
AI Companies Can't Regulate Themselves. They Should Regulate Each Other.
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (93+ words) Adapting a long-standing institutional model from financial regulation would let the industry write binding safety rules under government oversight. Four Challenges Any Regulatory Framework Must Address How Finance SROs Work SROs also exercise substantial enforcement authority. They monitor member operations,…...
Scaling Laws: Eliminating Barriers to AI Adoption with Clarion AI's Bennett Borden
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (90+ words) Lawfare Bennett Borden, Founder and CEO of Clarion AI Partners, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at UT and a Senior Fellow at the Abundance Institute, to discuss AI adoption as well as the future of the…...
Blame the Pentagon, Not AI, for Preventable Targeting Mistakes
1+ week, 1+ day ago (800+ words) In October 2015, a U. S. strike on a medical facility in Afghanistan caused the deaths of at least 42 people. The United States characterized it as a "tragic incident." In August 2021, a U. S. strike on misidentified individuals in Afghanistan killed 10 civilians, including seven children....
Implementing Cybercom 2. 0 Should Not Postpone Establishing a Cyber Force
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1218+ words) Lawfare In recent remarks, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) reflected on the dire state of the U. S. military's readiness in the cyber domain. Fallon lamented that, despite the military having had two decades to build a cadre of cyber leadership, "of the…...
Tarasoff Meets the AI Age
1+ week, 4+ day ago (344+ words) On Feb. 10, 18-year-old Van Roostelaar carried out a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B. C. , killing nine people'including herself. The warning signs were clear. British Columbia Premier David Eby suggested that Open AI may have had the opportunity to prevent the mass…...
AI Verification: Infrastructure for Prosperity, Governance, and Peace
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1314+ words) Lawfare Whether you're checking that a child has brushed their teeth or that your nuclear-armed foe is abiding by an arms control agreement, much of civilization revolves around our ability to determine whether others are following rules. While governments needed…...
Scaling Laws: Why AI Needs Independent Auditors, with Miles Brundage
2+ week, 3+ day ago (169+ words) Lawfare Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare, spoke with Miles Brundage, founding executive director of the AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI) and former senior advisor for AGI readiness at Open AI, about the state of AI safety and…...